On Saturday January 12, 2013, I was awarded an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. (Pictured above, L-to-R: Allister Timms, Derek Hoffman, Jim Kelly, Amy Tibbetts, Kendall Giles)

There was much rejoicing.

Note: as backgrounders on writing and …

As a part of the Literary Lounge series at Riverviews Artspace in Lynchburg, Virginia, Bunny Goodjohn and three other alumni from the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine—Anthony D’Aries, Meriah Crawford, and Deborah Williamson—read selections from their fiction, memoir, and …

So, these past twelve months have not been the greatest. A lot has happened since last August, so I thought I’d give an update on what has transpired.

A little over a year ago, an Aunt, who had been fighting cancer, was told to make her final life preparations.

Because her sister and niece (my wife) …